@Machete: "Why don't you Frenchmen take your hand off your balls, put it in your back 
pocket and donate some money to help the victims of the tsunami.  As usual, 
America is giving the most money and that's ok, we also have a proud history 
of personal donations and that also will be done.  What has France done? 
What are you Frenchmen doing to help these people?  A few hundred thousand 
dollars?  Shame on you!!! "
    @Montesquiou: ""Machete" <email_address> a �crit dans le message de news: 
41d314f8$<email_address>
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December 28, 2004
Too Bush Killing Iraqis
A Shameful Response to Disaster
By DAVE LINDORFF
Word that the U.S. government is offering a paltry $10 million in aid to
those
countries whose coasts were devastated by tidal waves from the largest
earthquake in 40 years should be a national embarrassment. That a nation
which
can talk casually about $400-$500 billion annual deficits, and about
spending
upwards of $100 billion a year in sowing destruction in Iraq can't come up
with
more than pocket change for disaster relief in an event that has displaced
over
a million people and rocked the earth in its orbit is mind-boggling.
But then, it's important to remember that there are disasters both natural
and
unnatural, and the American public and its chosen political system have
markedly
different responses to the two. There is also a different scale of concern
for
the deaths of Americans and the deaths of foreigners with brown skins.
There is national grief expressed for example, for the 15 Americans killed
while
serving themselves spaghetti in a military mess tent, while Iraqi men, women
and
children are being blown away, unremarked, at their dining tables on a daily
basis by U.S. bombs and cannon fire.
There is untoward concern about 100 missing Americans in resorts like
Phuket,
but little anguish over the 45,000 locals swept away by the same sudden
flood.
For that matter, such concern as has been expressed in America over the
tragic
loss of life around the rim of the Indian Ocean this past weekend as a
result of
a natural disaster stands in marked contrast to the complete lack of concern
(much less guilt) expressed about the lost of more than twice that many
lives at
the hands of American troops in Iraq, where an estimated 100,000 civilians
have
thus far paid the ultimate price for their country's "liberation."
Surely the world's richest nation could spare a few thousand rescue troops
and
medical teams and a billion dollars or so to help prevent the inevitable
epidemics and starvation that will follow this latest natural catastrophe in
one
of the world's poorest regions. But then, where would those troops and
medics
come from? They're busy killing Iraqis and patching up the American wounded
in
the latest U.S. imperial adventure, and can't be spared for humanitarian
gestures.
And where would that $1 billion come from? Wealthy Americans would have to
either forgo a few dollars in tax relief next year, or the military in Iraq
would have to do without a couple of F-16 fighters.
And yet, if America really wanted to show that it cared about the Third
World,
and indeed the Muslim world, for that matter, here would be an excellent
opportunity to prove it, by providing real , instead of just token
assistance to
the hard-hit Muslim communities in Bangladesh and Somalia, Indonesia and
southern Thailand.
On Christmas Day, President Bush offered up a maudlin, sugar-coated "message
of
compassion" to the nation, urging the American public to consider the less
fortunate. That same day, he offered up the national equivalent of a few
surplus
soup cans to the victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami.
His words would have seemed more sincere and heartfelt had he offered to
apply
even some of the tens of millions of dollars that corporations and the
wealthy
are offering in legal bribes to help pay for his inauguration festivities to
relief efforts instead.
We should all be ashamed.
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    @nVoFowg: "On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:41:14 -0500, "Machete"
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Aid from Europe so far (in Euros):
EU: 20 Mio
UK: 21.3 Mio
Germany: 20 Mio
France: 15 Mio
Norway: 6 Mio
Sweden: 2.7
NL: 2 Mio
DK: 1.3 Mio
Irl: 1 Mio
Others: 2 Mio:
Sum: > 90 Mio
USA: 25.5 Mio
No comment
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Voici une liste non exhaustive des aides internationales:
- Etats-Unis : 35 millions de dollars (25,5 millions d'euros), en plus
des 400 000 dollars (296 000 euros) d'aide imm�diate.
- Union europ�enne : 20 millions d'euros et se dit en mesure de
mobiliser jusqu'� 30 millions, apr�s une premi�re aide de 3 millions
d'euros.
- Japon : 22 millions d'euros et quelque 7 millions d'euros pour
soutenir l'action de ses ONG.
- Royaume-Uni : 15 millions de livres (21,3 millions d'euros).
- Allemagne : 20 millions d'euros.
- Australie : 27 millions de dollars (20 millions d'euros).
- France : 15 millions d'euros.
- Arabie saoudite : 7,4 millions d'euros.
- Qatar : 7,4 millions d'euros.
- Norv�ge : 6 millions d'euros.
- Su�de : 2,7 millions d'euros.
- Chine : 2,6 millions de dollars.
- Pays-Bas : 2 millions d'euros.
- Kowe�t : 1,4 million d'euros.
- Danemark : 1,3 million d'euros.
- Irlande : 1 million d'euros.
- Suisse : 660 000 euros.
- Iran : 627 000 dollars (464 000 euros).
- R�publique tch�que : 328 000 euros.
- Gr�ce : 300 000 euros.
- Finlande : 300 000 euros.
- Pologne : un million de zlotys (250 000 euros).
- Hongrie : 245 000 euros.
- Roumanie et Cambodge : 30 000 euros.
- La Russie a annonc� l'envoi de 25 tonnes d'aide humanitaire au Sri
Lanka.
- L'Argentine a promis 2,5 millions de pastilles pour rendre l'eau
potable.
- Le Maroc a adress� des m�dicaments, des vaccins et des couvertures.
Des contributions priv�es se joignent � ces aides des Etats, comme en
France o� les mairies sont ouvertes aux citoyens et des entreprises
envoient des m�dicaments, ou � Hong Kong, o� le magnat Li Ka-Shing a
annonc� un don de 3,1 millions de dollars US (2,2 millions d'euros),
et la vedette de films de kung-fu Jackie Chan et d'autres stars du
cin�ma ont promis 1,5 million de dollars de Hong Kong (147 000 euros).
Avec AFP"
    @Alex: ""w@ggg" <email_address> a �crit dans le message de news: 
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typically stupid us "
    @overa: ""Machete" <email_address> wrote in message 
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Bullshit and bragging as usual.
All European countries are donating more than US, and they are not bragging 
about it.
French contribution to development is $122 per person + $18 through EU = 
$140
US contribution is $ 56. Out of this major US donations are given to Israel, 
Egypt and other "friendly" nations, and is not based on actual need.
Egeland is right, US is stingy. "
    @oblivion: "I would like to know about canada....
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